The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way

I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.